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"As nice a guy as he is, he has no organization capacity or ability. And he doesn’t know how to do any complex strategic thinking and he doesn’t have anybody around him that does."
- George Harris, Chairman Nevadans for Sound Government feels that Michael McDonald, the Nevada State Republican Party leader, is worthless in the position. Harris says that it isn’t just this election cycle that the Republicans took a hit, in Nevada. They got thumped in the last cycle too. - Friday, July 5, 2019.
"We thought this is Las Vegas. We needed to do something that is Las Vegas style. Big. Grand. Over the top."
- Bob Groesbeck, Co-CEO Planet 13 on why he and partners decided to build the largest marijuana dispensary in the world. - Thursday, July 4, 2019.
"I may learn a new lesson in life, but I don’t think it’s going to be hard."
- Don Ahern, President and CEO, Ahern Equipment Rentals is the new owner of the former Lucky Dragon Hotel and Casino. He plans to be open with a non-gaming convention center/hotel in the Fall and he’s confident he can make it work as a boutique property. - Wednesday, July 3, 2019.
"Preexisting coverage protections for patients. I think that’s an important one."
- Mason Van Houweling, CEO University Medical Center looking at what was accomplished in the 2019 State Legislative session, especially as the Federal government continues to look at changes to the Affordable Care Act - Tuesday, July 2, 2019.
"I think the media has done a great harm to our democracy."
- Billy Vassiliadis, CEO, R&R Partners says that no one in the media is accountable to anyone but their viewers and their advertisers. - Friday, June 28, 2019.
"Everybody, except Biden, is looking for some place to breakthrough right now."
- Billy Vassiliadis, CEO, R&R Partners explaining why most of the Democratic candidates are climbing on board “Medicare for All” and other hot topics because they don’t want to get blown out before they can break out. - Thursday, June 27, 2019.
"I thought I had to have a picture (of Trump) to show my bipartisanship."
- Harry Reid, Former U.S. Senator of his past friendship with now President Trump. He has a letter framed on his office wall, from Donald Trump, congratulating him on his victory over Sharron Angle. That was when Trump was a Democrat. Reid visited his home on several occasions. - Wednesday, June 26, 2019.
"We have jet airplanes that fly 750 mph. These things, they estimate they go over 3,000 miles per hour. I think it is something we need to look at."
- Harry Reid, Former U.S. Senator who said he would earmark 22 million dollars of funding for research into UFO’s, the secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program in 2007, if the research was about the science not little green men - Tuesday, June 25, 2019.
"The State Department announcement came out that non required dependents should leave the country, that was really upsetting and stressful."
- Jill Derby, Former Nevada Democratic Chair who was recently in Northern Iraq at the American University commenting prior to the latest incidents initiated, allegedly, by Iran. - Friday, June 14, 2019.
"He’s within the jurisdiction of the regulators at this point.
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- A.G. Burnett, Former Chairman, Nevada Gaming Control Board referring to the fact that although Steve Wynn is personally off the hook with the regulators in Massachusetts, at this point, he is not off the hook with regulators in Nevada so despite the fact that his former company has paid their fine in Nevada he could still personally face penalties if the regulators choose to level them. - Thursday, June 13, 2019.
"It affected people using home smart automation systems.
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- Ira Victor, Digital Forensic Analyst, DiscoveryTechnician.com spoke about the recent Google event that occurred on June 2nd. It not only affected Gmail but also some people were locked out of their homes if they have smart locks and others were not able to use their thermostats that were tied to Google apps. - Wednesday, June 12, 2019.
"If it’s acceptable to have a male step down from the Legislature for sexual harassment, it’s certainly acceptable to have a female step down from the Legislature for that."
- Marsha Berkbigler, Washoe County Commissioner commenting on problems fellow commissioner Kitty Jung is having regarding harassment of the County Fire Chief for which she is being penalized. - Tuesday, June 11, 2019.
"That one was too much of an obvious punt.
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- Mary Lau, President and CEO, Retail Association of Nevada discussing the Legislatures decision to put partial funding of the teachers’ pay raises onto the Counties by enabling them to raise their local sales taxes. - Friday, June 7, 2019.
"It’s not necessarily what fits for Nevada.
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- Susan Fisher, Government Affairs Group VP, McDonald Carano Wilson, is dismayed that a percentage of the Democratic legislators are not looking at what’s best for Nevada but are following an agenda sent down by the national party for use in this state. - Thursday, June 6, 2019.
"We were very successful in maintaining the integrity of Nevada water law.
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- Kyle Roerink, Executive Director, Great Basin Water Network says that in his group's view, Nevada water law was under attack during this Legislative session. - Wednesday, June 5, 2019.
"You had a lot of new people who didn’t know how to deal with the 120-day limit.
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- Eric Herzik, Political Science Professor, UNR referring to the bold agenda the Democrats started out with and how much was killed (death penalty) or whittled down (criminal justice reform), by the end of session. - Tuesday, June 4, 2019.
